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‘If a billion doesn’t do it, then a trillion is not going to do it': Alex Jones lawyers argue over punitive damages in Sandy Hook case

HARTFORD, Conn. — Lawyers for right-wing provocateur Alex Jones and the families who won nearly $1 billion a month ago for being targets of his Sandy Hook school conspiracy theories argued Monday over another potentially extraordinary award of punitive damages for what was described in court as his “evil” and…

Tribune News Service

Alex Jones trial moves to punitive damages phase

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is facing the possibility of having billions more dollars added onto the amount he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

The Independent UK

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seeks new trial after nearly $1bn Sandy Hook verdict

Jury ordered Jones to pay $965m in damages to families subjected to harassment from Jones’s lies about Newtown school shooting

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Sandy Hook families want Alex Jones to pay up to $2.75 trillion in damages as he seeks new trial

Families want judge to award ‘highest possible punitive damages’ on top of jury’s compensatory recommendation

The Independent UK

Alex Jones seeks new trial after $1B Sandy Hook verdict

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families over Jones' lies that the 2012 Newtown school shooting was a hoax

The Independent UK

Sandy Hook families seek $2.75 trillion from Alex Jones

Sandy Hook families asked a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay $2.75 trillion in damages in addition to the almost $1 billion a jury awarded for defamation, claiming only “the highest possible punitive damages,” will stop the Infowars host from continuing to harm them.

Tribune News Service

Sandy Hook families seek steep punitive damages after $1 billion Alex Jones verdict

Families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting on Friday asked a Connecticut judge to order Alex Jones to pay hefty punitive damages on top of nearly $1 billion a jury said the conspiracy theorist owes them for falsely claiming the massacre was a hoax.

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GMB viewers slam Richard Madeley over 'awful' question to dad of Sandy Hook victim

Good Morning Britain viewers hit out at Richard Madeley over his 'awful' question to Robbie Parker, the dad of a Sandy Hook victim, after conspiracist Alex Jones was forced to pay victims almost $1 billion

Daily Mirror

‘It gives me some hope for humanity’: Daughter of Sandy Hook principal finds healing after the horror in Alex Jones decision

HARTFORD, Conn. — Erica Lafferty, whose mother Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung was killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, said she knew “she was opening a new door to hell” when she decided to sue Alex Jones.

Tribune News Service

What’s next for Alex Jones? ‘He doesn’t have a billion dollars,’ UConn law prof says

HARTFORD, Conn. — Alex Jones was bragging Friday that he won’t be stopped by a nearly $1 billion judgment against him earlier in the week for spreading phony conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and claiming the families suing him were actors in a plot to outlaw…

Tribune News Service

Alex Jones’ lawyer dropped from radio show after admitting he got his ‘a** kicked’ in Sandy Hook trial

Norm Pattis said he had ‘parted company’ from a conservative talkback station in Connecticut

The Independent UK

Editorial: Alex Jones verdict sends a strong message to those who profit from cruel lies

It’s unfortunate that the families of Sandy Hook probably won’t actually get anything close to the nearly $1 billion that a Connecticut jury assessed Wednesday against right-wing conspiracy monger Alex Jones for his monstrous lies about the massacre that killed their children. But the historic verdict nonetheless sends a strong…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

$1B judgment against Alex Jones not the final word

The nearly $1 billion judgment against Alex Jones for spreading false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre bought long-sought relief to family members and hopes the eye-popping figure would deter people from broadcasting falsehoods

The Independent UK

Stephen Colbert: ‘By the grace of God, sometimes bad things happen to Alex Jones’

Late-night hosts discuss the Alex Jones verdict and evidence Donald Trump has even more classified documents

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Editorial: The price of Alex Jones: The wretched liar must pay $965 million to the families of Sandy Hook victims

Six Connecticut jurors — or shall we call them justice actors? — just ordered Alex Emerick Jones to pay $965 million total to 14 parents and siblings of children and teachers murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, and one smeared FBI agent. America’s First Amendment free…

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook families $965m

Infowars host punished over promotion of lie 2012 massacre never happened. Plus, 70% of animal populations wiped out since 1970

The Independent UK

Marjorie Taylor Greene defends Alex Jones’s persecution of grieving families saying he ‘only spoke words’

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls trial ‘political persecution’

ABC News

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay Sandy Hook families nearly $US1 billion. He says he won't pay it

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly $US1 billion in damages to families of the Sandy Hook victims, after falsely claiming the tragedy was a hoax. The Infowars host says he won't pay, so what happens now?

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Crikey

If Alex Jones has to pay for his Sandy Hook lies, what about..?

If Alex Jones can be sued successfully for his spreading of conspiracy theories, who else can be?

Crikey

If Alex Jones has to pay for his Sandy Hook lies, what about…

If Alex Jones can be sued successfully for his spreading of conspiracy theories, who else can be?

Crikey

The Alex Jones Sandy Hook ruling won’t stop what he unleashed upon the world

Infowars host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly US$1 billion in damages to the parents of Sandy Hook victims. But is it too little, too late?

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Origin Of Pox And Plague Alex Jones Has To Pay $1.5 Billion To Families Of Sandy Hook Victims

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Crikey

Alex Jones proves there are limits on expression but not on the grift

As a judge ruled Jones owed more than a billion dollars to the parents of Sandy Hook victims, the Infowars host did a livestream to shill his supplements.

AFP

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 bn for Sandy Hook lies

Washington (AFP) - A US jury ordered far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Wednesday to pay nearly $1 billion in damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a "hoax."

Salon

Jones verdict: Nearly $1 billion owed

Jones owes $965 million in compensatory damages to Sandy Hook families and, according to Infowars, that's a win?

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